The Martin Luther King Movement (MMLK) has issued this week, an alert to the Togolese authorities citing the “deplorable” living and working conditions of Togolese domestic workers in Yemen and Oman.
The Togolese State is requested to release ten detainees arrested in 2019, following violence that the Togolese government denounced as an armed insurrection. The decision was made on Wednesday, June 7, 2023 by the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
A total of 352 prisoners have reportedly benefited from a presidential pardon granted by the Togolese Head of State Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé this Thursday, March 30, 2023.
Togo’s initial report on the rights of persons with disabilities was reviewed by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Friday March 17, 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland.
On Wednesday February 1, 2023, the U.S Department of State announced the winners of the annual Global Human Rights Defender Awards. Among them, the Togolese Ekoue David Joseph Dosseh.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs for Regional Integration and Togolese Abroad, Professor Robert Dussey was awarded on Saturday in Islamabad, Pakistan, the International Human Rights Prize.
